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Lai Afong

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Only known self-portrait and autograph of Lai Afong. c.1870.

Lai Afong (Chinese: 赖阿芳 aka. Lai Ah Fong, Huafang, Fang Lai, Lihua Fang, Li Fang, A'Fong Lai, 赖華芳, 黎華芳, 芳華) (c.1839 - 1890) was a Chinese photographer who established Afong Studio, one of the early photographic studios in Hong Kong. He is considered to be the most significant Chinese photographer of the nineteenth century.[1]

Work

His studio was active from 1859 to around the 1940s. The business was probably taken over by his son in the 1890s.[2] Subject matters ranged from portraits and social life pictures to cityscapes and landscapes. Lai's work and person were praised by John Thomson, a Scottish photographer working in China at the time, in Thomson's book The Straits of Malacca, Indo-China, and China.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ Hannavy, John (2013). Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography. Routledge. p. 815. ISBN 9781135873264. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  2. ^ "Afong" on Wattis Fine Art website
  3. ^ Thompson, John (1875). The Straits of Malacca, Indo-China, and China. Harper & brothers. pp. 188–189. Retrieved 11 November 2015.

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